For the Finest Tennis Players, Forty Truly is the New Thirty
In our increasingly speeded-up 21st century, it often seems that everything is new. Apparently, orange is the new black, tech…
Martin is a scriptwriter of plays and screenplays, including a biopic of Shakespeare, www.theshakespeareplays.com. He is an experienced journalist, writing on cinema for The Script Lab as well as on sport for LastWordSports.com/tennis and LastWordOnSports.com/Football.com. A poet, having written a collection of short poems, entitled Shards, extracts from which have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, Martin is married with three children and lives in London, UK.
In our increasingly speeded-up 21st century, it often seems that everything is new. Apparently, orange is the new black, tech…
Non-devotees of women’s tennis might think that the Fed Cup is a tournament named in honour of the great Roger,…
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Petra Kvitova may have won the WTA Elite Trophy in China last weekend, but her victory was not entirely impressive.…
When I read this week that Johanna Konta was still competing in China, I assumed that, having forgotten to put…
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